新作坊

Enhancing tourism industry through community participation: a strategy for poverty reduction in Zanzibar, Tanzania

摘要：

This study centred on understanding how local communities participate in the tourism industry in Bwejuu Village in Zanzibar, and the benefit they are getting towards poverty reduction. Specifically, the study identifies tourism industry activities and how local communities participate in improving their livelihoods; finding out the factors influencing local community participation in tourism sector; and lastly, identifying the contribution of tourism sector in enhancing local communities' livelihoods. Interviews, observations, documentary reviews, and photograph taking are methods employed to the case. The study result shows that tourist hotels, beach, seaweed, historical building archives, diving and snorkeling, sailing boats, coral reefs, and lagoons, as well as mangrove swamps are some tourist activities in the settlement. Both men and women involves in the tourist activities. The tourist activities noted contribute to local communities' livelihoods in terms of employment creation, leisure, income generation, increased government revenues, schooling, health, house construction, and household consumption.